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imparadise

American  
[im-par-uh-dahys] / ɪmˈpær əˌdaɪs /

verb (used with object)

imparadised, imparadising
  1. to enrapture.


imparadise British  
/ ɪmˈpærədaɪs /

verb

  1. to make blissfully happy; enrapture

  2. to make into or like paradise

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of imparadise

First recorded in 1585–95; im- 1 + paradise

Example Sentences

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There is a land of every land the pride, Beloved of Heaven o'er all the world beside, There brighter suns dispense serener light And milder moons imparadise the night.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)

He saw, I suppose, for he added at once,— "Or what was the name of the Witch of Atlas,   'The magic circle of whose voice and eyes   All savage natures did imparadise?'"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

Mr. Judd was a good scholar, and the word is legitimately compounded, like ensphere and imparadise; but he did not invent it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

God’s very grace Is perfect in thy face, Mirrored such wise That I mine own soul there imparadise.

From Eidola by Manning, Frederic

For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is; My Fortune's wheel 's the circle of her eyes, Whose rolling grace deign once a turn of bliss.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir